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I’m not a bitter and angry feminist.
Oh, no. I’m a Jesus-following, joy-filled feminist, a Jesus-made-a-feminist-out-of-me feminist. I’m no man-hater: I’m surrounded by good men, brave men who celebr...

Ok, I admit it: I brag. I am a brag artist. Name-dropper. One-upper. The male equivalent of Kristen Wiig’s Penelope SNL character – you know, the one that’s dated Tony the Tiger and has been to the m...

If I asked you, “Who do you love?” I’m sure you could give me a list of the significant relationships in your life. Pondering these people probably brings up an assortment of feelings: gratitude, hila...

Flickr photo (cc) UNAMID photo
Thirty kilometers south of Kigali, where the towering hills of Rwanda’s capitol city give way to the softer hills of the countryside, sits the small town of Nyamata. Th...

Courtesy of Max & Lauren Dubinsky
Continuing the trend of comparing my field notes with those of others, I thought I’d get in touch with Max and Lauren Dubinsky. If you don’t know who they are, well,...

Flickr photo via Texas A&M AgriLife
Success is one of the dirtiest temptations of the devil.
— Madeleine L’Engle
In his book “A Thousand Miles in a Hundred Years,” the venerable Donald Miller quotes...

Southern California is a land of temples. I reckon it’s the proximity to Hollywood that makes it better than most at constructing an environment that convinces people of certain truths. And the market...

Flickr photo by potamos.photography
“What do you do,” her voice strained, “when everything inside of you feels like you are supposed to do this thing, serve God in this particular way, and then someo...

Flickr photo (cc) by Gerard Stolk (vers le 25e juillet)
November 5, 2005 was one of the greatest days of my life. It was the beginning of a brand new, lifelong adventure filled with immense joy, incr...

Flickr photo (cc) by orensbruli (Esteban Martinena)
As a pastor in Hollywood, CA, I’m in a context that was post-Christian before it was cool. We make no assumption of church background, biblical fam...